Open Thread – Weekend 15 April 2023
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The disappearance of the Beaumont children and the Wanda Beach murders shook Australia to its core. Most of us here, who grew up in the Oz of the 1960s and 1970s, were effected.
Affected.
But yes, it was a loss of innocence. I grew up in The Shire, and after the Wanda Beach murders, the days of parents waving their kids off to play at the beach all day were pretty much over.
That the case was never solved is largely a result of Plod in those days being stupid and incompetent in roughly equal measure. Subsequent investigations illustrated that they broke almost every rule in the book. That’s not surprising, since there was no book and a lot of them could barely read anyway.
The Beaumont children episode hit a nerve all over the country. There is no reason to believe that SA Plod were any better than their NSW counterparts.
Those, and the Graeme Thorne kidnapping, the Gilbert/Bogle murders and the Wally Mellish siege were the crime headlines when I was growing up in Sydney in the 60s.
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Like your stuff better, Rabz, than what I’ve just been checking out. News today was that a guy called Mark Sheehan has laid his ax down, he was guitarist for a band called The Script. Who I’ve never heard of, so I thought I’d listen to some of their singles. Ok I suppose, but apart from the lead singer’s excellent voice not something I like really.
He is a bit reminiscent of this guy though:
The Police – Walking On The Moon (1979)
When I was at my local IGA this morning our resident busker was doing Space Oddity by Bowie, he’s very good. I gave him three bucks, which I always do.
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How to teach reading and counting? Board games.
Casino chips, from a (pretty high-faultin’) board blackjack table designed for the manliest of man caves that was given to me by a bloke moving interstate.
Taught the young bloke to count with them, and then progressed to basic multiplication tables.
Only ever used the table a few times. The chips, however, were a daily thing.
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Always good when you get to see the musicians play.
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Two Steps From Hell:
Two Steps From Hell – Seal Of Solomon (Official Music Video)
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Go and play this on your stereo, peoples – loud … 🙂
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Pancho – click on this, Squire, it is totally benign, I assures ya 🙂
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Two Steps From Hell are awesome, also Groove Armada. But I’ve been watching a vid of George Patton, so I’ll contribute the Patton theme. Which is a fine antidote to ear worms. When you get one just play this theme in your brain and it goes away. 😀
Patton • Main Theme • Jerry Goldsmith (1970)
Did Wolfman do a post on this movie? I can’t remember.
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Nothing but respect for ballet. One cool chick…and gorgeous. Homosexuals can look up the blokes.
Two Steps From Hell – Enchantress ( EXTENDED Remix by Kiko10061980 )
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Create a list of chores.
Yes. This is what I did to encourage our kids to help out with weekly chores when I was working full time.
The chores were printed on a slip of paper and put into a box for them to draw out. Most attracted a small payment, although some were freebies. And some were simply a five minute break, to sit back and gloat over the other ‘hard-working’ sibling. Great psychology.
They still grew up to be disgustingly grotty teenagers.
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I confess
That was very anal. Reminds me of this one which is also anal, but with a fun video:
The Cure – Close To Me (1985)
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Speaking of English Roses …
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Some Quant goils are featured in this clip … 🙂
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johanna says:
April 15, 2023 at 8:54 pmAffected.
Absolutely.
Graeme Thorne, July 1960 was the first of those you mentioned.
Then on 1 January 1963 the mysterious deaths of Gilbert Bogle and Margaret Chandler.
The Wanda Beach Murders on 11 January 1965 and then a year later
on Australia Day 1966 the disappearance of the Beaumont children.Who could ever forget.
The last three listed above were all in January.
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More good news:
Let’s hope he doesn’t get fired. The screaming customer was a black woman.
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For anyone whose ever lusted after an exquisite young womanage …
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Quaint goils
There’s a price Rabz.
Bryan Ferry – The Price Of Love (1976)
It’s fun that the hot babe at the start of the vid was recently dumped for another…by a 92 year old.
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Math for kiddies
if Victoria needs to see 25GW of new power generation online between now and 2035
and given that the historical record shows that The Doc in Back to the Future needed 1.21GW to get from 1955 to 1985
then estimate the rate (in Teslas per day), that Dan Andrews will need to pull magic out of his arse for the next 12 years?
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Sancho Panzersays:
April 15, 2023 at 10:11 pm
Steve trickler says:
April 15, 2023 at 10:07 pmRowdy and Cash:
Is that the 6PR breakfast crew?
No prick in this clip.
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Cash!
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Hey guys, I think I found the problem.
The CEO of Budweiser is a CIA operative.
No, really.
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Well, in the finale to The Last Kingdom, which is the movie they’ve made to bring Uhtred the Warrior into the conclusion of King Alfred’s vision of England, we see Athelstan led astray by homo-eroticism but brought firmly back into line by Uhtred, who supports him in his great (and IRL historic) Battle of Brunanburgh. The last scenes were particularly touching as Uhtred’s mind’s eye images dead heroes from the previous series all feasting and glorying in Valhalla. We have reason to believe that Uhtred is on his way to join them. A fitting end.
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DAY THREE: Allan (Police Commissioner) admitted to astonished pressmen that Mellish had been given an Armalite rifle and 200 rounds of ammunition because he wanted to match the firepower of the police. Allan denied he was a hostage, claiming Mellish threatened the life of his wife and child. Police also gave Mellish food and a radio. Allan said Mellish claimed to have hand grenades and this was supported by Beryl.
I hadn’t ever heard of this. Some crazy shit right there.
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A Happy and Holy Pascha to our Orthodox Brethren.
Christ is Risen!
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Working on getting the bits together for the Little Bloke and his mate to build themselves lorica segmentata.
Found these hinges which will work ok and some D rings to make buckles. Still looking for some sort of standard hardware that will work for the lacing eyes.
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Bedtime here. After our long arvo tryst and nap, Hairy went to the gym and I danced to a Mr. Motivator.
Even so, we are both tired now.
It’s always good to pop in and read what the company on the Cat have been up to. Especially interesting for me to hear from the once were Westies and know that some here still are. My time in the West was in the 1940’s at primary school in St. Mary’s, and then at Penrith high school in 1954 while living in Mt. Druitt. Sydney’s outer west formed so much of me and I have never forgotten it, as a place and an identity. It’s changed a lot since my time. So has the south west and the Richmond area.
Returning to England in the early 1950’s with my mother, leaving my father in Australia, and going to school there, also tore me in two, as both English and Australian. That’s a Jerusalem that’s never left me either.
I was at that New Year’s Eve party in 1963 where Geoffrey Chandler spent some of that evening.
It was in Balmain, and in the house of an older member of the Sydney ‘Push’. I can’t remember much else about it. Loads of people there, and a lot of drinking. Someone gave me and my girlfriend a lift back to my place in inner-Sydney. A platonic girlfriend, I hasten to add. We slept together in my double bed, but women did that a lot in those days, innocent of seeing it as sexual in any way. Just a bed for the nite. -
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He exposed the evil c**t from Sony Music. Have a dig. Michael was cool and got the shaft….will chase up tomorrow.
Repeat clip.
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My fave from this week’s ‘week in pictures’.
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Piers Akerman:
The saying “the road to hell is paved with good intentions” is as true today as it has been over the millennia, and nowhere is it borne out more plainly than among those who view the vibe of the proposed Voice as more important than its prospective impact.
In recent days, a handful of Liberal MPs have expressed their personal views on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s constantly changing referendum question to be put to voters toward the end of the year.
Former Indigenous affairs minister Ken Wyatt went the full dummy-spit and quit the party.
Julian Leeser, who announced his doubts about the shapeshifting Albanese model even though he was on the panel which devised it, resigned his shadow attorney-general and Indigenous affairs portfolios.
Senator Simon Birmingham has taken his usual position – that of absolute ambiguity. (insert Cassie’s ire)
Leeser’s stance is in line with the confusion that infuses the whole question. On the one hand, the claim is for a radical new clause in the Constitution, while Leeser is equally of the view that most of the laws and programs for Indigenous folks are run at the state and territory level, and most of the challenges are at the local level.
Referenda should require simple Yes or No responses but, on the question of the Voice, it is not that simple despite the claims of Tom Calma, one of the co-authors of the Uluru Statement with Marcia Langton.
Most Australians, I suspect, would like to vote Yes to recognise the uncontroversial fact that there were Aboriginals living on this continent when European settlers first arrived.
However, when informed that a Yes vote would change the country, those who have taken a few minutes to actually learn what the ramifications of their vote would mean would rush to tick the No box.
As the nation’s most senior political analyst, The Australian’s Paul Kelly succinctly wrote recently: “Inserted into the Constitution, the Voice will be a group rights political body pursuing political outcomes with a constitutional mandate that is virtually open-ended in terms of the representations to parliament and the executive government – cabinet, ministers, department heads, public servants and statutory authorities – on matters concerning Indigenous people or on general matters that include Indigenous people.
“Albanese had previously said only a ‘brave’ government would overlook advice from the voice.”
Good intentions have a track record of boomeranging disastrously.
The late South African Liberal MP Helen Suzman comes to mind as one who campaigned relentlessly against apartheid only to later see her dream shattered when the ruthless African National Congress, the party of her beloved Nelson Mandela, took power and dragged South Africa backward into a corrupt morass of tribal politics.
Present with Mandela when he signed South Africa’s new constitution in 1996, an 86-year-old Suzman confessed in 2004 that she was disappointed by the ANC.
“I had hoped for something much better … the poor in this country have not benefited at all from the ANC. This government spends ‘like a drunken sailor’. Instead of investing in projects to give people jobs, they spend millions buying weapons and private jets, and sending gifts to Haiti,” she said.
With all the goodwill in the world, the hopey-wishey kumbaya crowd contemplating a Yes vote need to take off their rose-coloured spectacles, look beyond the vibe and shrug off the cloak of guilt and shame that some Indigenous representatives insist is their transgenerational inheritance.
The Yes lobbyists ululated with delight when the renegade Liberals announced their defection from the considered party position in favour of an amorphous proposition with never-ending repercussions.
The ABC, Labor’s broadcast arm, even interviewed former Liberal MP Trent Zimmerman, who said he couldn’t understand how his party could permit a “subset” of MPs to vote their consciences while others were bound by frontbench solidarity.
He is, however, more than happy to support a subset of Australians, selected by racial identification, to be given separate and privileged access to governments at every level and the bureaucracy, with recourse to the High Court if their demands aren’t met.
The Yes proposition has more “buts” hanging from it than an unshorn wether sheep has rattling dags. Australia is in serious economic and cultural decline, it doesn’t need ill-informed but well-intentioned idiots hastening its demise.
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Well if they paid someone not to build a road I suppose it’s logical to pay someone to not build a railway too.
Reports Victoria’s airport rail link project set to be paused (16 Apr)
Victoria’s promised airport rail link project will likely be paused due budgetary blowouts.
The state Opposition says the “stop work” move is a sign the state’s Big Build plans could be faltering.Is there anything that Dan can actually build? Or does he just not build things?
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BoN, Dan doesn’t care if they get built or not. All his projects primary purpose is to make well paid jobs for the members of the big unions that support Dan, an added bonus is the the unions then have lots of money to donate back to Labor.
Dan’s run out of money, he needs more and doesn’t care where it comes from, the longer he can keep his massive ponzi scheme going the better for him and Labor. When is eventually crashes he won’t be paying a price for his crimes. He will be living off the people of Victoria for the rest of his life and federal Labor will probably appoint him to an ambassadorship somewhere nice.
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I came across a pic of Norm Smith after the 1964 Grand Final. He jumped for joy but behind him was a stand full of women, including one with a durry. I assume that hallowed ground had a Ladies Stand, like the SCG?
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Build roads?
I know we always complain about roads in the bush but the state of main roads in country Vic is seriously dangerous.
I’ve never seen them so bad and there seems to be no plan or effort to repair them. It’s over six months since the big rains of spring that mushed up these already poor tracks and not a sign of equipment except for low standard patching that breaks up after a week or two.The same governments are then going to hastily build huge multi billion dollar transmission lines in the same areas using these roads. It’s like constructing a palace in a swamp.
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Just on Dan’s ‘Big Build’ as far as I can see, nothing is being built, rather upgraded. Swan Hill to Melbourne line is or has been done, in sections. On the way here, some upgrading of a road between Pakenham and Phillip Island being undertaken.
As for the building of new stuff, like a hospital or gasp! a new coal mine or tapping gas fields, his wilful flogishness allows Victoriastan to sink without trace. -
Apart from that justified whinge, we’ve had about 20mm overnight and that’s 50mm for the month. The pastures are leaping out of the ground and we’ll get a nice kill on weeds for the cropping.
Even better is the fact that my nephew has finished at uni and is full time on the farm this year. I get to handle the sheep and bring up the seed/fert and fuel for cropping without the need to drive anything much. Luxury. -
“The ABC, Labor’s broadcast arm, even interviewed former Liberal MP Trent Zimmerman, who said he couldn’t understand how his party could permit a “subset” of MPs to vote their consciences while others were bound by frontbench solidarity.
He is, however, more than happy to support a subset of Australians, selected by racial identification, to be given separate and privileged access to governments at every level and the bureaucracy, with recourse to the High Court if their demands aren’t met.”
Ahh, Rent Zimmerman, who lost his seat in May 2022, whilst that “subset” of MPs kept their seats. I think that fact alone says everything you need to know about the unlamented recent member for North Sydney.
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Milton F,
thanks for the link to the film on Green Valley. I grew up there. Busby, Green Valley. Around the corner from Busby West Primary and Busby High. A highlight for us on a Saturday night was watching the fireworks from Liverpool Speedway. We could see them from our house.An interesting anecdote from then, when Busby High was being built, the Unions ordered a walkout, of course. This was in the days of Askin. Instead of giving in to Union demands, he brought in the Army and they almost finished the build before the Union workers came back. I have distinct memories of walking by the build site and saying g’day to the soldiers.
Bringing in the Military to help Aussies wouldn’t happen now, of course. Not a State, nor Federal gov with Askin’s balls.
An interesting part of early Housing Commission life was the Class structure. Yes, there was a definite Class structure. If anyone is interested, I will describe it in another comment later today. I have a Tip run to do this morning.
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Up our way the council or vicroads has put temporary 40kph speed limits in everywhere you go, some have been there six months and no work commenced, everyday the damage gets worse. Asphalt season ends in Vic soon and I can’t see them getting much in the way of repairs done in the meantime. I reckon a lot of the damage will not be tackled till spring.
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Before I load up for the tip run, last night I was channel surfing again and came across that skank Burney being asked about something. Was it my imagination, or did she look pissed? As soon as I saw and heard her speak I thought, she is seriously making that “if I speak very slowly, no will know I’m drunk”, facial expression. You know the one, we’ve all tried it. Never works.
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Ackerman, as brought to you by BB:
the ruthless African National Congress, the party of her beloved Nelson Mandela, took power and dragged South Africa backward into a corrupt morass of tribal politics
A corrupt mass of tribal politics.
This stupid government has no idea of the scale of tribal – i.e., skin group – divides that permeate right through any facet of indig administration into their own affairs.
Every single Land Council heavyweight position is fought for using tribal alliances, and once in the big chair the winners freeze out anyone who isn’t in his particular crew and set about enriching themselves and their own with someone else’s money.
It’s been going on for decades. Exposing the giant ATSIC rorts was just scratching the surface. If anyone thinks the Voice will be any different, they need their head examined*.
*h/t Kerry Packer
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Hope this works.
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Hahaha!
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I hope PV, what’s left of it, is watching how this stuff is done. Meanwhile the Bud Lite thing just keeps getting better.
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